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There is much at stake today (29/11/2016) at the Spanish Supreme Court. Favouring Uber may positively waterfall AirBnb, Booking.com and similar members of the gig economy, let alone whether Google & Facebook can be ocnsidered media companies and not IT ones.

Allegedly the taxi side is supported by Spain, France and Ireland (a country that does not host Uber’s HQ), while on the SF company’s side we can see Netherlands (by coincidentce the country hosting UBer’s HQ and that may see it part away, Estonia -or better said E-stonia-, poland, Finland -where Uber is authorise,d provided it pay taxes-, Greece and the EU Commission.

On a similar note, the case in France has been withheld until next elections after fear of the populist Le Pen’s victory.

Despite some EU DIrectives being correctly implemented in UK and the existence of national bodies (Ofcom and ICO), Brexit leaves way for chances to not implement the Network and Information Security Directive. What then?

EU has, allegedly, not yet underwent tests nor drafted laws and is, again allegedly, losing ground to U.S. and other worldwide regions for what concerns self-driving-cars regulation. Moreover, the current infrastructure won’t allow for the high standards of internet connectivity required by these cars.

Brexit is definitively the mass legal topic right now. This articles analyses the implications for Privacy law.
In the end, UK leaving the EU will subtract itself to the Directives.
Hence will the new Privacy Shield (stand the EUCJ ruling, first) be aplicable in UK?
If UK happens to leave, will it be considered a safe country, when it comes to data migration?
Will the UK legal Light Touch apply to Privacy laws too?